Day 1 recap: Norway’s Therese Johaug wins first gold of Beijing Winter Olympics
China claims a thrilling victory in the short track speed skating mixed relay as sport takes center stage after a troubled buildup.
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Ikuma Horishima wins Japan’s first medal in Beijing with bronze in men’s freestyle moguls
Moguls skier Ikuma Horishima scores 81.48 points to finish behind gold medalist Walter Wallberg of Sweden and silver medalist Mikael Kingsbury of Canada.
News U.S. urges Japan to consider sanctions on Russia if Ukraine invaded
Japan, however, has deferred its response to the U.S. request, fearing possible ramifications on bilateral issues with Russia, including a long-standing territorial dispute.
Norway’s Therese Johaug wins first gold of Beijing Games in women’s skiathlon
Natalia Nepryaeva, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, took silver, while Austria's Teresa Stadlober snagged the bronze medal.
News Misunderstandings over U.S. military’s COVID policies continue to reverberate in Japan
The Foreign Ministry claimed that it was not alerted until late December that pre-departure testing requirements had been lifted for U.S. military personnel, but Washington ...
News New COVID-19 cases in Japan surge by over 100,000 as serious cases rise to 1,100
In Tokyo, the occupancy rate for hospital beds for COVID-19 patients rose 1 percentage point from Friday to reach 55.1%.
Japanese snowboarder Kokomo Murase makes confident debut to ease into slopestyle finals
Murase, who was too young to compete at Pyeongchang 2018, advanced to the finals in second place.
News Suspect in knife attack outside University of Tokyo served fresh arrest warrant
The second-year high school student was served the warrant on suspicion of attempting to murder a 72-year-old man, one of the three victims.
Final Beijing Olympic torch-bearer’s ethnicity not a factor in selection, IOC says
Yilamujiang Dinigeer, from Altay in China's western Xinjiang region, placed the lit torch onto a giant snowflake on Friday during the opening ceremony.
The top rivalries to watch at the Beijing Olympics
For every big-name athlete or team at the Beijing Games, there is someone standing in the way of victory.